Miscellaneous

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Clothing for computer scientists. Funny T-shirts that only a grad
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Research

I'm interested in natural language semantics, specifically in
producing computer programs that understand natural language. The two
questions I'm most interested in are:

How do we computationally represent the meaning of language?

How do we automatically produce these representations from text?

I work on the Never-Ending
Language Learner (NELL), a system which learns to read using a
corpus of webpages. My research includes both work on the underlying
knowledge representation and interpreting text given a knowledge representation.

Learning to Parse and Ground Natural Language Commands to Robots.Jayant Krishnamurthy and Thomas Kollar.
In Proceedings of the AAAI 2012 Workshop on Grounding Language for Physical Systems, 2012.
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Which Noun Phrases Denote Which Concepts?Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom M. Mitchell.
In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
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CrossBridge: Finding
Analogies using Dimensionality Reduction.Jayant Krishnamurthy and Henry Lieberman.
In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Common Sense Knowledge, November 2010.
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Finding
Analogies in Semantic Networks using the Singular Value
Decomposition.Jayant Krishnamurthy. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 2009.
PDFCrossBridge, the analogy algorithm from the
paper, is now included in Divisi.